Tag: climate

May 19, 2015 0

The Sound of Global Climate Change

By News Desk

Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional

May 15, 2015 0

Bjorn Lomborg demonstrates why universities should steer clear of him

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Here’s the exchange in Danish newspapers (emphasis added, some typos corrected): Kare Fog, a critic of Lomborg: …. Lomborg will presumably refer to his Copenhagen Consensus conference, where it is shown with – seemingly – matter-of-fact cost/benefit calculations that it pays better to solve other problems than global warming …..  [The audience members] do not know that t he figures have arisen by discounting calculations and that Lomborg has cheated in these calculations. He has used one discount rate for climate projects, and another discount rate for the remaining projects

May 5, 2015 0

Why Jim Hansen Worries

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Tweet Back in 1988, in the original GCM, Hansen summarized the situation going forward.  The most important part of this figure is that grey band, and the implication that the world would soon enter that region, as indeed it has.  The top end of the gray Eemian is well below 2 C  pre-industrial, something that scared Hansen thirty years ago, because he knew what that meant for the world

May 1, 2015 0

You Load 16 Tons

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Tweet Don Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy, aka coal in WVa, has a Nixon problem.  Turns out the Don recorded his phone calls and now the prosecutors have them.  How they have them is one of those stories.